Category Archives: Programming

Blog posts about programming in general or concerning languages that don’t fit in any other category.

VBScript For JSON

Posted on 4/18/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Tonight I found an Active Server Pages script for generating JSON from databases that ASP can connect to using ADO. This may be useful for understanding how to translate data into JSON. It may also prove handy for creating JSON … Continue reading →

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Silverlight Aggravation, Accounting Basics For Programmers, And Storefront

Posted on 4/13/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Last week I wasted a lot of time on Silverlight. I used the word “wasted” because after putting a lot of time in a project I discovered that it is impossible to create a simple hyperlink! I could scarcely believe … Continue reading →

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Recent Technology Research

Posted on 4/2/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I really want to return to creative pursuits but I’ve been spending most of my free time keeping up with changes in technology. I have a long list of research that I plan to do. Over the past week I … Continue reading →

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Twitter And Yahoo! Maps API

Posted on 3/27/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been reading the book “Amazon.com Mashups” by Francis Shanahan. This book covers more than the Amazon API so it has proven to be very useful in introducing me to many other Web 2.0 APIs. Its example for using the … Continue reading →

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AJAX And JSON Are Making JavaScript Very Popular

Posted on 2/17/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been doing a lot of work with JavaScript lately. JavaScript has become very popular due to the AJAX craze. Every Web 2.0 site has to do something impressive with AJAX so web developers are becoming more creative with JavaScript. … Continue reading →

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Amazon Mashups, Expression Web VBA, JSON Viewer

Posted on 1/24/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Here is a list of what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks:1. Started working with the Amazon web services API. I added a web page to my help collection Notes which gets my programming books wish list from … Continue reading →

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SubVersion

Posted on 1/8/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been reading many other programmer blogs to get a sense of what I need to know to remain marketable. When you work alone or on a small team you experience professional social isolation and don’t learn about the best … Continue reading →

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JSON Web Services

Posted on 1/4/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve recently learned that it is possible to create a web service which returns JavaScript Object Notation JSON rather than XML. ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to give a web service a ScriptService attribute which “AJAX enables” the Web Service and … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET 3.5 Released

Posted on 11/20/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ll blog about this here because everyone on the http://weblogs.asp.net/ site has already announced it. Microsoft has released the .NET Framework 3.5 which includes the new version of ASP.NET, known as ASP.NET 3.5. Visual Studio 2008 has also been released … Continue reading →

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Web Parts, YAML, Washington DC

Posted on 9/21/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

This blog post is going to wrap up a week of activity that didn’t give me time to blog. This week I worked on an important web part that creates a parent / child relationship between two database tables. I … Continue reading →

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C# Data Structures

Posted on 8/25/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I added a topic to my notes on C# data structures. I think I had a class in college on data structures. We used Pascal for that class. I still have my Pascal book and Pascal compilers but there is … Continue reading →

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TableAdapters And Transactions

Posted on 7/29/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been doing some more work with TableAdapters and transactions. I’ve learned how to extend the TableAdapter class to include support for handling transactions. Being able to extend a class to override a method or provide new methods is an … Continue reading →

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Cross-Page Posting

Posted on 6/26/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I added a help topic on Cross-Page Posting to my ASP.NET 2.0 notes. Cross-Page Posting allows a second ASPX page to get the form fields from a previous ASPX page when the form is submitted using the Post method. … Continue reading →

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